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'A voyage from England to India, in the year 1754, and an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive, in the years 1755, 1756, 1757 ... Also a journey from Persia to England by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron, etc.' [‎76] (105/562)

The record is made up of 1 volume (518 pages). It was created in 1866. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.

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*755' proftitute them to all comers. They will tell you imleed that their goi
firft debauched them upon account of their beautyj and that ever after
they muft remain lacred to the church.
During our ftay this time at Fort St. David, a very melancholy accident
happened to fome of our people, for the Kent's boat in trying to get over
the bar, was overfet by the violence of the wind and furf, and a young
gentleman who was a midfhipman and relation of Admiral Pvcock's, the mafter-
carpenter, captain's clerk, and two other men, were unfortunately drowned.
This misfortune was entirely owing to their making ufe of their own boat,
inftead of the common bar-boat, which is much better calculated for this
particular purpofe.
I fhall finifh this chapter with a fliort account of the caufe and violent
effeds of the land-wind, which in the fouthern parts of India blows for
two or three hours in the morning with an heat that is almoft intolerable.
As to the caufe, we may fpare ourfelves the pains of enquiry, if we only
look on a map of the continent of India, and obferve, what a vaft traft
of land this wind comes over, fome hundred miles of which are fand,
which necefiarily muft give the wind every burning quality long before
it reaches the Coromandel coaft. That this is the grand caufe of this
common phoenomenon, is very manifeft whenever a fhower of rain falls
at the time this land-wind prevails *, for if the wind in its way towards you,
chances to pafs through the fhower, you are fure to find the air agreeably
cool, even though the day be ever fo clear, and the fun fhines in its meri
dian luftre •, whereas they who live only at the diftance of a few miles
from you, but out of the dire<5l line v/here the fhower pafled, (hall at the
fame time be fainting under the ufual exceffive heat. Very many and
great inconveniencies arife from thefe winds. It is affirmed with confidence,
that they will fnap glafs, if too much expofed to them. I have feen them
ftrrp off the fineering from a cheft of drawers, and they will certainly crack
and chap almoft every wood that is not well feafoned. Another great
inconvenience arifing from thefe land-winds, is the whirling of the land
in one s eyes: the air is fo full of fand, that there appears a perpetual
hazinefs the whole day juft above the horizon. And when thefe winds
blow with more than ordinary violence, great quantities of fand may be
fwept from the decks of the fhips riding in the road, though near three
miles fiom the land. This abundantly convinced me of the truth of that
furprizing circumftance mentioned by the ancient hiftorians, of whole
armies being buried under the mountains of fand, which are fometimes
railed by thefe winds *.
But befides the inconveniencies I have already mentioned, thefe land-
winds have another quality which deferves particular notice; and that
& arenarum mohbus oppreffus, imerut. J ustini, lib. i. cap ix
4 ' ' is.

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A voyage from England to India, in the year 1754, and an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive, in the years 1755, 1756, 1757 ... Also a journey from Persia to England by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron, etc.

Publication Details: London : Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1773.

Ownership: With stamps of the India Board and India Board Library.

There are numerous illustrations and two maps in the volume:

  • a copy of a large folded map at the beginning of the volume, 'A Map of India together with a chart of the Indien Seas, to which the operations of Admiral Watson's Squadron were principally confined; and shewing the passages made by Commodore James from Madrass to Bombay in the years 1754 & 1755 ... By Thomas Kitchin, Hydrographer to his Majesty';
  • a map of the route from the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. in Basra to Latakia, Syria, on the Mediterranean Coast 'Mr Ives's Route from Bassora to Latichea.
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1 volume (518 pages)
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There is a table of content at the beginning of the volume, detailing the arrangement of contents and page references (pages viii-xi) and a 'Table of Coins and Monies' (page xii).

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Dimensions: 280 mm x 220 mm.

Pagination: initial Roman numeral pagination (i-xii); (1-506).

Condition: there is a large folded map, unfolding can be difficult withouth risk of tears.

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